posted June 11, 2002 06:58
I wrote extensively about the Ubermensch, or "super-man". It is the next stage in human evolution. "Ubergeek" would obviously refer to the next stage in geek evolution. The geek who is totally at one with his realm of geekiness, and stands above the others in achievement. The ubergeek, as a prerequisite, has reached a state of "Nerdvana". Und I don't mean Nerdvana the amusement park.

posted June 11, 2002 19:50
Cool. The German "Geek Culture". What depresses me is that everyone there seems to be casually bi-lingual, posting reviews in German of books written in English. In the U.S. so few people can do things like that it's pitiful.

posted June 13, 2002 12:33
I see ubergeek as a rating of geekyness, not a type. Thereby, when a particular friend of mine and I are seperate, we are each very geeky. When we are hanging out, though, we are one Ubergeek. Of course, the telepathy helps.I had a german girlfriend once...-Oz

posted June 19, 2002 00:40
Well, since we're on the topic... let's talk geekdom for a moment.There are 1337 Haxors which is just a wannabe script kiddieScript kiddies who are wannabe Crackers who think Hackers are CrackersCrackers are educated dangerous grown script kiddies who do damage machines and write the scripts for the kiddiesPhreaks are Phone Hackers and Crackers - the exploit the phone systems for ammusment and free calls.Hackers - The next evolution of geek, these are programers who hack out code, who resent the modern media meaning for the word hacker - see GNU manifestoWhich would make Ubber geek the next evolution after Hacker? So Jobs, Woz, Allen, Linus and the like would be Ubber Geeks?

posted June 19, 2002 05:41
I have to strongly disaggre with GameMaster. An Ubergeek is not a step in evolution after hacker. Geekiness and being able to play with computers are orthogonal concepts. Consider the TV show "Beat the Geeks". They have movie, music and TV geeks. And these guys are truly geeks. They know so much arcania about their respective topics that it's actually scary. Computers just are not part of the equation.